I think most of the people watching us around the world really don't understand the level of devastation that's going on, ... You have 11 million children in sub-Saharan Africa now suffering as orphans. ... They're AIDS orphans. What I realized is they're children left to take care of themselves.
Quotes about sub-saharan (16 Quotes)
Once a disease like AIDS reaches the kind of proportions we see in sub-Saharan Africa it is no longer a disease, it is a disaster, ... Such a widespread disease destroys the work force and shatters the economy.
When we talk about the Middle East or sub-Saharan Africa, there will be somebody in the room that may have actually been in combat in that area, may actually know a national leader personally,
I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
Clearly it's in my company's best interest to have 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa join the network,
Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
This agreement builds on Bristol-Myers' long-standing commitment to the global fight against AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIVAIDS pandemic has been especially devastating, we've taken a broad-based approach to addressing the AIDS crisis, including providing our AIDS medicines at no profit prices and committing to ensure our patents do not prevent inexpensive treatment in the region.
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
If the rate of electrification of the past decade remains unchanged, it will take more than 40 years to electrify South Asia and almost twice as long for sub-Saharan Africa. This is unacceptable.
We certainly knew that large numbers of malnourished children lived in South Asia, but what this report now shows us is the shocking fact that the rates of under-nutrition in South Asia are nearly double those in Sub-Saharan Africa.
All of Africa's mammalian domesticates - cattle, sheep, goats, horses, even dogs - entered sub-Saharan Africa from the north, from Eurasia or North Africa.
must be expanded to maximize economic activities among a variety of sectors and to ensure a real and measurable impact on the economy and well-being of sub-Saharan Africa.
In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nearly half of India's children are undernourished, compared with a quarter of those in sub-Saharan Africa.
Asia has more than twice as many severely deprived children as sub-Saharan Africa. This scale of child poverty will have a serious impact on Asia's future prospects, unless it is addressed now,
Development can really work everywhere. But most of sub-Saharan Africa, the Andean region, and Central Asia face obstacles.